Every April I’m called upon to account for how I spent the previous year; how I spent taking care of my dependents, how I spent paying off my mortgage, and how I spent on a whole laundry list of other tax-deductible items. Fortunately, in the interest of making this as difficult as possible, the United [...]

An awful lot of folks are angry at the American banking industry and they are expressing their outrage by way of obscene gestures, foul language, and poorly-spelled letters to the editor. The government, sensing the restless mood of the public is responding by giving huge piles of crisp new dollar bills to the banks. [...]

I don’t have to tell you that the economy is in bad shape; that’s the job of the talking heads on the TV news. Every half-hour the round-the-clock news drones come on to report that the economy is still in bad shape. If the economy was a broken-down car, the newscasters would be [...]